Did Elizabeth Warren mean to destroy Mike Bloomberg's campaign? 'Yes,' she tells Rachel Maddow.

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published 6 March 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday, but MSNBC's Rachel Maddow found a tiny sliver of silver lining in her interview of Warren on Thursday night. "Senator, you outlasted Mike Bloomberg in this campaign," and "a lot of postmortems on his campaign accredit you, basically, with singlehandedly tanking his candidacy with the way you took him apart in that debate," Maddow said. "Is that what you were trying to do?" "Yes," Warren said. "Do you take credit?" "Sure," she said, "but the point is, he's not going to be the Democratic nominee, and he shouldn't be the Democratic nominee. In my view, he was absolutely the riskiest candidate for Democrats on that stage." She explained her thinking.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.

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